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Table 1. Quality of the included studies according to the NHS Centre 2001 table

Trials

Entry point

Confounding of cases

Confounding of controls

Follow‐up length

Dropouts < 10%

Data clear

Endpoints clear

Same population

Cooney 1996

+

Unclear

+

Unclear

+

Unclear

Díaz 1988a

Unclear

Unclear

+

+ Cases

+

Egbuonu 2005

+

+

+

+

+

Kazi 1995

+

+

+

+

+

Labbok 1997

+

+

+

+

Unclear

Peréz 1991

+

Unclear

Unclear

+

+ Cases

+

Ramos 1996

+

+

+

+

+

Ravera 1995

+

Unclear

+

Unclear

+

+

Rodríguez 1993

Unclear

+

+

+

Shaaban 2013

+

+

+

Unclear

+

WHO 1999a

+

Unclear

+

Unclear

+

+

LAM: lactational amenorrhoea method
WHO: World Health Organization

Figures and Tables -
Table 1. Quality of the included studies according to the NHS Centre 2001 table